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Food Delivery Drivers Feel Strain of Italy’s Ban on Outdoor Work on Hottest Days

Delivery riders are already some of the most vulnerable workers of booming gig economies. During successive heat waves this summer in Italy, it got complicated.

© Enrico Parenti for The New York Times

A delivery driver drives in front of the Colloseum in Rome
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Late-Night Killing of a Teenage Girl on a Bicycle Unnerves Amsterdam

A 17-year-old was stabbed to death as she rode home after a night out. Her killing has shaken a city where cycling safely at any hour is taken for granted.

Some women said the crime made them rethink biking home alone at night.
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